◇ image via WikipediaRandy Weston
Randy Weston is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Wynton Kelly and Billy Strayhorn. Those roots explain a lot about how Randy Weston arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Duke Ellington and Oscar Peterson, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Babatunde Olatunji and Ron Carter, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 14 connections around Randy Weston, reaching back through Wynton Kelly and forward to Babatunde Olatunji. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Randy Weston connections
Randy Weston grew out of Wynton Kelly and Billy Strayhorn, shares an orbit with Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans and Duke Ellington, went on to shape Babatunde Olatunji and Ron Carter. 14 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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